As the country debates THAT White House meeting, we took a closer look at some of the claims traded in the Oval Office.

Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, came to power in September 2022 following a military coup that ousted interim ...

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been previously sanctioned in the UK for Covid-19 misinformation, but has made new claims. We investigated.

Are white Afrikaners really being killed “like flies”? Is a white South African farmer being “slaughtered every five days?” Would the number of whites “killed in SA in black on white violence” fill ...

As one of South Africa’s most pressing problems, rape levels in the country get discussed and reported on often. And as a result, many of the statistics used cross our desks here at Africa Check.

The governor is mostly correct that Lagos is the largest city-state in Nigeria, although experts say it is the only one. He is also largely correct that about 65% of air traffic in and out of the ...

Attacks on people living and working on farms and smallholdings in South Africa are a topic of emotive debate. The terms “farm attack” and “farm murders” are popularly used to refer to “certain crimes ...

Nigeria’s health ministry is correct that over 200 million girls and women around the world have survived FGM. The ministry’s claim that Nigeria accounts for about a third of that estimate is however ...

While the latest official unemployment rate for the Western Cape is 20.2%, that doesn’t mean that “eight out of 10” people in the province are employed. And it’s misleading to say that the province ...

The tweet’s claim that there are 1.8 million white and 30 million black people of working age in South Africa is understated. The country has 40.2 million working age people, 2.84 million (7%) of them ...

IN SHORT: Scientists announced important developments in the search for a cure for HIV in March 2024. But promises on social media of a cure using gene therapy are made by quack doctors and should be ...